Systems Architecture
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Defragmenting magnetic disk drives:
- A defragmenter is referred to as an application which receives the data on hard drive or magnetic disk drive partitions in such a way that the files are stored in as much as contiguous space that is available.
- It’s the purpose of defragmenter to search the hard drive partition and m...
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